Find Liberty To Earn Unlimited Profits On The Internet

by Bonnie Boots

My average client is a self-employed professional, or at least someone with specialized training, that wants to take a step onto the internet to see if they can expand their profit potential.

But sometimes getting them past interest and into action takes a long, long time.

For more than a year I've been encouraging a self-employed professional in my area to get on the internet. At long last after many personal conversations and even a video presentation, he's finally decided that setting up an email system to communicate to his vast client list is a good "first step."

I'm always amazed at how slowly some of these folks creep out, wiggling one cautious toe into the water as if they're testing for digit-snacking sharks.

I always wonder why they don't just dive in. That's when I have to remind myself that a scant five years ago, it was my toe doing the timid wiggling.

Back then I was juggling work as a newspaper columnist along with writing for several magazines while making radio spots and TV commercials on the side.

And I could clearly see that when it came to my future income, the handwriting was already on the wall. It said "Bonnie, you'd better learn to use the internet now, before print media goes belly up."

So I stuck my toe in and wiggled it around for a year before I took the plunge and put up my first web site.

I've learned a lot since then, more than I can carry around in a single brain. I've learned the ins and outs of all sorts of software, learned new ways of writing and promoting and marketing, learned new ways of making money--more than I dreamed of as an ill-paid writer for print!

Most of all, I've learned that anyone with any sort of skills or specialized knowledge can leverage the internet to reach around the world and build a nearly unlimited profit potential.

Last week I spoke with a new client who's worked twenty years as a management consultant. She explained that in those years, she's had to relocate three times. Three times she's had to leave old clients behind, settle down in a new city and rebuild her business from scratch.

Now, thanks to the internet, it doesn't matter where she lives. It doesn't matter where her clients live. She and her clients meet and do business in cyberspace.

In virtual space, "relocation" means only that you've moved your laptop, "starting over" means only that you've rebooted and "potential client" means the population of Earth.

This month, as the United States of America celebrates its liberty, I have to think that there should be a similar day designated to the internet. The internet, as it's developing now, offers us the ultimate liberty-- liberty from the physical boundaries that once defined where we could work, whom we could meet and how much we could earn. Sometime this month, step outside, light up a sparkler and celebrate that!
    

 
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